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<p>To Err Is Human</p>
AdrienneS&L #76 Summer 2003Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:32:35 +0000Christine1679 at http://slugandlettuce.netAdrienne #75http://slugandlettuce.net/columns/adrienne-75
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; By seven in the morning, I was in the hospital on five hits of morphine. I was floating in and out of consciousness, barely aware of my best friend Wendy holding my hand tightly as I moved through one of the craziest highs I&rsquo;ve ever experienced. During moments of consciousness, I would try to focus on Wendy and explain to her that I felt as if I wasn&rsquo;t breathing. I felt as if everything in my body had slowed down so completely that my lungs seemed to be made out of sticky glue, as if each breath was like pulling apart wet cloth.</p>
AdrienneS&L #75 Spring 2003Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:38:40 +0000Christine1666 at http://slugandlettuce.netAdrienne #74http://slugandlettuce.net/columns/adrienne-74
<p>My last couple of columns were so depressing. Each time I had to sit down and write for Sluggy, I was in a dark place where it felt appropriate and necessary to pour out the excess of my overwhelming sadness. I felt lost, as if I was wandering with no sense of direction and no understanding of any of the events that had brought me to such a place of sorrow. But given enough time, all things will mend, heal, and grow. As my heart heals, I feel as if I've become lighter. A huge burden seems to be slowly lifting from me and I'm experiencing joy, happiness, and fulfillment again.</p>
AdrienneS&L #74 Winter 2003Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:25:27 +0000Christine1654 at http://slugandlettuce.netAdrienne #73http://slugandlettuce.net/columns/adrienne-73
<p><strong>EULOGY </strong></p>
AdrienneS&L #73 Autumn 2002Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:42:03 +0000Christine1642 at http://slugandlettuce.netAdrienne #72http://slugandlettuce.net/columns/adrienne-72
<p>I call it torture, you call it life. </p>
AdrienneS&L #72 Summer 2002Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:20:36 +0000Christine1627 at http://slugandlettuce.netAdrienne #71http://slugandlettuce.net/columns/adrienne-71
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I'm in the process of trying to radically redefine my understanding and approach towards sex.&nbsp; And no, this doesn't mean that I'm reading the Karma Sutra or making names for new positions that no human on this planet could possibly contort themselves into.&nbsp; Trust me, I have a very clear and focused and expanded perception of the ACT of sex.&nbsp; What I'm talking about is how my mind and my heart approach the sexual side of myself and the sexual aspect of people I am attracted to.&nbsp; In my mid-twenties, I chose to be single for four years after a particularly</p>
AdrienneS&L #71 Spring 2002Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:02:01 +0000Christine1613 at http://slugandlettuce.netAdrienne #69http://slugandlettuce.net/columns/adrienne-69
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I live in a city full of hate.&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve been living in New York City for the past five years and that sentence can pretty much be applied to this city at any given moment, but ever since the World Trade Centers got blown away, this city is full of H-A-T-E.&nbsp; Big, capital, glowing neon letters.&nbsp; You can almost see the word tattooed on everyone&rsquo;s foreheads.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is a city full of hate, filled to the brim with manic patriotism, and swept up in a tidal wave of religious fervor.&nbsp; I ride my bike to work, and every other house has an Ameri</p>
AdrienneS&L #69 Autumn 2001Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:52:48 +0000Christine1602 at http://slugandlettuce.netAdrienne #70http://slugandlettuce.net/columns/adrienne-70
<p>COMIN' HOME </p>
AdrienneS&L #70 Winter 2002Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:39:51 +0000Christine1590 at http://slugandlettuce.netAdrienne #68http://slugandlettuce.net/columns/adrienne-68
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I looked at Tony and said &quot;Sometimes, the person with the greatest strengths can also have the greatest weaknesses.&quot; and as the words came out of my mouth, I realized I'd had a flashing moment of personal brilliance.&nbsp; I don't think that Tony particularly noticed my shining, brilliant moment, but that's okay.&nbsp; My personal epiphany wasn't meant to inspire revolutionary thoughts inside of him.&nbsp; He and I were simply sitting on my stoop on a beautifully mild morning getting to know each other.&nbsp; Talking about relationships, about sex, about a</p>
AdrienneS&L #68 Summer 2001Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:41:41 +0000Christine1581 at http://slugandlettuce.netAdrienne #67http://slugandlettuce.net/columns/adrienne-67
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I wasn't hitting my head into the kitchen wall hard enough to do any serious brain damage, but hard and loud enough to draw the attention of my Mother who came walking in and stopped me before I did cause some trauma to my forehead and my brain that was getting rudely knocked around in my skull.&nbsp; I had just gotten off the phone with my boss at the local Valley Card And Gift, the store I was working at in the local mall.&nbsp; I had asked for a particular weekend off from work and my boss hadn't been able to find anyone to&nbsp;cover for me.&nbsp; Even though I was a </p>
AdrienneS&L #67 Spring 2001Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:18:57 +0000Christine1570 at http://slugandlettuce.netAdrienne #65http://slugandlettuce.net/columns/adrienne-65
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It must have been around ten years ago. I had gone to my parents house earlier in the evening for a dinner with the family. I rarely went out to visit because I couldn't stand being around my Father. But once every few months, I would feel the accumulated pressure of my family to have a dinner with all of us together. I'd have to get in my car and usually drag whoever my current boyfriend was along as a buffer between me and my immediate relatives. I never really got along with anyone in my family except for my Mother. I love my Mother with all my heart.</p>
AdrienneS&L #65 Autumn 2000Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:53:10 +0000Christine1558 at http://slugandlettuce.netAdrienne #64http://slugandlettuce.net/columns/adrienne-64
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I got filled with righteous indignation at an early age. I must have been all of 17 when I began to read and study about feminist issues. I would read book after book about sexism and inequality and each word I read filled me with rage and fury. it had never occurred to me until that point in my life to question the ways that people treated me differently simply because of my gender. I had never thought of the conditioning and the socialization that I had been brainwashed with that made me think and feel certain things about myself as a woman.</p>
AdrienneS&L #64 Summer 2000Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:45:22 +0000Christine1553 at http://slugandlettuce.netAdrienne #61http://slugandlettuce.net/columns/adrienne-61
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Years ago, when I still lived in Oakland, California, I heard about a woman in our punk scene that had been raped by her ex-boyfriend. It happened during a party when she had gone to her room to pass out drunk. She woke up with the guy on top of her, raping her. I knew the woman that it had happened to, although I was never very close to her. I also knew the guy that had done it, although I had never been very close to him either. There was no question and no denial of the rape. It had happened and everyone was trying to deal with it.</p>
AdrienneS&L #61 Autumn 1999Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:08:29 +0000Christine1378 at http://slugandlettuce.netAdrienne #59http://slugandlettuce.net/columns/adrienne-59
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Two people very close to me are getting married within the next couple of months. Both weddings are giving me this giddy, excited feeling and I've been spending a lot of time down in Soho going into little boutiques and clothing stores that I would normally never shop in to try to find an appropriate dress for both events. My friend Beau planted the idea in my mind that getting dressed up for a wedding is cool so now I've been on this frustrating and exasperating search for the perfect outfit.</p>
AdrienneS&L #59 Spring 1999Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:37:12 +0000Christine1368 at http://slugandlettuce.netAdrienne #58http://slugandlettuce.net/columns/adrienne-58-0
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Generally, I wouldn&rsquo;t call myself a paranoid person.&nbsp; I don&rsquo;t think that the FBI or the CIA are after me or tapping my phone lines.&nbsp; I never feel as if someone is watching me in some covert operation.&nbsp; I don&rsquo;t cover various parts of my body with aluminum foil in the hopes of deflecting secret messages being sent to me by government mind controllers.&nbsp; Nor do I think that there are hidden camera throughout my house that&nbsp; monitor my every move.&nbsp; Every stranger that I meet is not some spy who is trying to infiltrate my life in o</p>
AdrienneS&L #58 Winter 1999Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:32:06 +0000Christine1365 at http://slugandlettuce.net